Hey!  That would be a great topic of the Billing Best Practices and Policies 
session at Wispapalooza!  (Shameless plug).

Jeff Broadwick
ConVergence Technologies, Inc.
312-205-2519 Office
574-220-7826 Cell
jbroadw...@converge-tech.com

> On Sep 18, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Cameron Crum <cc...@wispmon.com> wrote:
> 
> I think this is a bit backwards myself. Credit card auto pay has a higher 
> percentage chance of being on time than checks. We encourage our customers to 
> charge a check processing fee or at least give a discount to auto payers. I 
> know we spent a lot more time tracking down checks and had very few come in 
> on time than the small fee you pay for credit cards. How much does it cost 
> you in labor to track down deadbeat check payers? For us, the convenience was 
> worth more than the charge. 
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Jason McKemie 
>> <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure you're allowed to charge for it now.
>> 
>> http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-surcharges-allowed-1281.php
>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Ryan Ray <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> +1 
>>> 
>>> Don't charge your customers for using a credit card or they will pull your 
>>> merchant agreement. For good reason. I hate companies that do this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Simon Westlake 
>>>> <simon.westl...@digitalgunfire.com> wrote:
>>>> Darin,
>>>> 
>>>> Not a lawyer, but be careful - I'm pretty sure it's against most of the CC 
>>>> issuer policies to do this.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-convenience-fees-cost-surcharges-1280.php
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 9/18/2015 1:30 PM, Darin Steffl wrote:
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> If some of you with Powercode would be interested in this feature, can 
>>>>> you please vote for it on the feature request link below?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Basically, this feature would automatically apply a fixed or percentage 
>>>>> based fee to the bill for all credit or debit card payments. It would 
>>>>> also warn the customer of this charge before they setup auto pay or 
>>>>> submit manual payment. We would continue to allow ACH or eCheck 
>>>>> withdrawal for free but charge for customers to use credit/debit payment 
>>>>> method as those costs are 2-4% of the total customer bill, which we don't 
>>>>> want to eat the cost of.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please vote for this feature if you think you might be even a little 
>>>>> interested in this so it is available when you are.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://community.powercode.com/forums/309535-feature-requests/suggestions/9130852-payment-processing-fee-for-credit-cards
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Darin Steffl
>>>>> Minnesota WiFi
>>>>> www.mnwifi.com
>>>>> 507-634-WiFi
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